Von: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project- bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] Im Auftrag von Nicolas Cellier ... Knowing that the PostscriptGraphicsContext just streams out graphics primitives to the file, without needing any intermediate reification of Postscript objects (except fonts), what was the point of such implementation choice in PDF4Smalltalk?
That is simple: in smallCharts, the product I use PDF for, I do have more or less elaborate models of graphical objects and text. But these are very much tied to the application and quite specific for my needs so that I don't think it is too useful for general consumption. Instead, some general abstractions/concepts should be developed bottom up based on broader use. Christian